For some electric vehicle batteries, it costs more to recycle them than they’re worth. That creates all kinds of problems, which a new Colorado law aims to solve.
For some electric vehicle batteries, it costs more to recycle them than they’re worth. That creates all kinds of problems, which a new Colorado law aims to solve.
That’s a temporary problem, while mining produces plenty for very cheap. Once the cheep and easy mines dry up, it’ll shift.
On top of the relatively easy mining, there’s the relatively low volume of batteries to recycle. If you can’t keep a plant running all day you have a capital cost you can’t reduce as fast. That will also be less of a problem in the future.
75% of the aluminum used in cans is recycled. Aluminum is easy to reuse, so why are we still allowing plastic bottles?
Because oil is still cheap. Cheapish, recent short term price spikes aside.